FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Extended Family, Family Law

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Legal definitions: related to family law concerns. Not a definition of family per se. Each province and territory have legislation about families: legal definitions tend to change over time, with new court rulings and, applied context legislation, and also depends on your fields. Normative definitions: shared by a majority of people in a country or region, practice or action regarded as socially legitimate and approved, sometimes legal definitions our out of sync with social norms. Definitions of families have broadened: applied context. Divorce was legal however not socially acceptable. Green highlight on final: derived from. A hunch: must be measurable, context. A group of people who share a legal or blood bond is a family. Extended family: parents and their children living in the same home, all relatives that are in close proximity, all live together and share household duties, three or more adults and their children.